Dutch language

How to pronounce salary increase in Dutch?

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think for a moment how you could pronounce this word in
English I'll
give it
away you can pronounce this as a frieze
I'll explain to you how that is the f
spelled with gh comes from the beginning the one
set with the letter o comes from how one
and thus spelled with tape the station comes by the
way all english examples
i give i speak his british english
from this joke and is attributed
to living chol the author of beek medium on
which afterwards my fair lady is based
he would have come up with this example
to show how
youthful how bizarre the english spelling
actually is
there are quite a few people who struggle
with that english spelling
i'm going to explain why
and show what impact it
has on students who don't
being able to make one's own
way through that jungle of english
spelling
i have been involved with the
phenomenon of dyslexia and
learning english for almost 30 years and i think it is now
it is time for us to take action and
ensure that these students
are helped in the right way in learning
that language it concerns dyslexic
students
but what does it mean to have the selection
the brain of people with dyslexia
has a lot of trouble with processing
speech sounds into words
speech sounds these are the building blocks of
words a word like street is
made up of
speech sounds can also differ very subtly
from each other
take for example the dutch words
kitchen and kitchen if you
want to read or write those words correctly then
you have to be aware of it be that the onion in
tubs is something different from a kitchen
or take the subtle differences between
orbit and
moon correctly perceiving Dutch
speech sounds
and learning to link them to the correct
letters that belong to it
is actually a very complicated process
that is why we teach our students in the
Netherlands for six years reading Dutch
spelling teaching and Even
in secondary education after that
, there is not enough for dyslexic students,
the very often many years of
need for extra support in this
area and we also give these children
extra time to take tests and
exams
if you start learning English then that starts
whole process from scratch
you have to learn to distinguish new speech
sounds you have to
link them to new characters because
every language has its own set of
speech sounds
and its own way of linking those and
characters and also for
english the differences between
speech sounds can be very subtle
and if you perceive that nice well or
do not represent it properly then strange
misunderstandings can arise and suppose you work
for an English-speaking company and you want a
salary increase then of course you do
not negotiate your salary but you
approach your sorry and the request
[ __ ] please hope my suit is really
something else than creature keep my dad quis
for injured people this is often already
difficult for children with dyslexia this can
be an enormous barrier that
stands between them and learning the english language i have
supervised a dyslexic pre-university student for 6 years
carmen they eat and can there was a very
bright young lady who almost carelessly
got high marks in most
subjects only english was a gram
that also supports me in
learning english words
i would each become english and she
had to repeat it
and then it happens regularly that I
had to say a word more than 10 times
before the plunger managed to repeat the word
correctly that had nothing to do with
her hearing that was fine but
that had everything to do with your laborious
processing of speech sounds
into words and especially if
unfortunately it concerns a foreign language correctly
perceiving speech sounds is not
enough to correctly
read and
write english words that spelling is too complex
and difficult e unpredictable
I have already shown you an example
at the beginning
I will show you another example
and that is the game a pattern or ugh I
have a number prepared you
with other english words
to show you how to do that part
should pronounce you
knew you can pronounce that at least nine
different ways
and thus brake
for topspots stream plus the snow of
the sounds like in which a trap strange the
blog or sounds like in coffee
cloud gets absorbed in hiccup
how you even a p and also clean on clock
you would expect that we teach our
students to
read English and teach spelling,
but nothing
could be further from the truth that we do not do that not in primary school not in
secondary education
not even in courses to teach
English
what does that mean in practice
well may i introduce you to tom tom is
a dyslexic first year student and
has to learn english words
can you see ton in his room
behind his desk tje
on his own without help without a
manual and he has to
learn at least two pages of words
that are also loosely arranged without any context
and to make matters
worse, the teacher has said english
you have to learn all the words in both directions
dutch english english
dutch
even though is it a book classified differently
already so stupid to write these words over and over again
it will not help has no
idea of the relationship between the letters on paper
and their pronunciation they have I ever
een another boy from limburg also a dys
exic boy mark
lready that hear sighed
well I had written all my English words about
40 times and then I
still had a fail and this had only written
the leaf in his despair to the test
why is in preferable sympathy sells but
let's return to tom
when she told his mother but after
why she went to try with the
spelling pronunciation that's when your
word if we de old try to remember
like white wood
and then they tried
to remember the word asked you to remember as too grou their
en maasstad web meug the day after you
went to school and they get a
quiz
and when the teacher said english write down
and translate
man woman etc.
Then it is about completely panicked and
they
don't get petit fours at all
I regularly get questions from concerned
parents how they can best help their dyslexic son or
daughter with English
in preparation for the seventh grade
that children have often already in the
initial
learning process negative experiences
with learning english and people
are aware that in
secondary education
english has become a core subject
it sometimes happens that my app
finds out later that
something must be wrong with a certain pupil
some pupils who succeed
wonderfully in hiding their problems
behind a large vocabulary
broad general development ng a high iq
until they are seriously confronted
with english and then they fall heavily through
the ice because there is nothing to
compensate with the vocabulary because
they do not have it yet
they cannot rely on and wash the
spelling rules or other characteristics
of english spelling we should
not have learned them
and if you have problems with that just
like tom and mark and carmen
then you also have problems with
learning English words and therefore also
with deciphering English texts
and understanding them with the result
that these children do not receive the right
help they are
often referred to
a lower level by the school with a severe insufficient level of English
it has also happened that children
go unnoticed because of
dyslexic children
and simply
have to go through life
as less smart i once had marieke in class
in 4 mavo
marieke came from another school where
she failed the final together and
she was allowed to t try again at my school
and marieke came to have mondamin
in the school with a reputation
for being rebellious and brash and
unruly and so
was in my classes found very difficult to get in
touch with her
until i got to know you
because when I wrote to her and when she
had to grade tests it
dawned on me that this must be a very
smart child and dyslexic
only that was never officially
established
her letters her english letters
excelled in word choice
her sentences were grammatical correct
she always had every part subject was
executed neatly only I can only
conclude that I had read her
letters aloud three or four times to myself
because she had written everything down
for no ties
then I also understood her rebellious attitude
this was typical a child who
for years
had not been able to fully utilize her capacities
because the system had therefore
assumed that she would not be so was smart
instead of dyslexic
for me marieke is a model for all
students who fall out of a
tree for all students who cannot
develop all their talents
because the school first messes them up
with his english and then says to these
children go ahead step down make
your diploma
maybe you know
such a student in your own environment
maybe to your own child you are
worried about him or her
your daughter thinks english is a difficult
language you are so unexpected at english
take action after all it is necessary not
due to a lack of language
skills if they experience problems with
learning english
it does not have to be a lack of
commitment it is probably
that annoyingly difficult one
and if the spelling is playing tricks on your child
and it needs
help with that
my call that's why you all go
in this room and beyond be alert
poor connection between having
trouble with english spelling ng and dyslexia
don't allow children below their
level and finish school Catch
out those students who
are at risk of slipping through the cracks and take
action for improved English education
so that talent never
has to be wasted again
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